💷 Universal Basic Income enabled home moves, 🗜️ Faster Compression through multithreading, 💨 Dark Oxygen discovered in the sea, 🕞 AI hampers productivity

Innovation Insider, your weekly round up of interesting content from around the web.
🧠 Top Innovation Stories
Sam Altman’s UBI study finds that money can buy happiness
But not necessarily health

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What are you're thoughts on this? Will UBI work as we transition traditional jobs away from people, or will new jobs emerge?
This was a well-run study, using different control groups and monetary amounts, but still (I feel) failed, as the gains weren't sustained once the funding was removed.
This was a well-run study, using different control groups and monetary amounts, but still (I feel) failed, as the gains weren't sustained once the funding was removed.
Starlink Broadband Launch Mini Dish and Mini Roam Service in UK
Customers of SpaceX’s ultrafast and low-latency Starlink broadband service may like to know that the ISP has finally launched their new WiFi (only 802.11ac / W

🖥️ Top Technology Stories
Elon Musk fires up ‘the most powerful AI cluster in the world’ to create the ‘world’s most powerful AI’ by December — system uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single fabric
Memphis Supercluster training started at ~4:20am local time.

LZ4 v1.10 Introduces Multi-Threading Support For Major Compression Speedups
Yann Collet released LZ4 v1.10 today as a major update to this extremely fast compression algorithm
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Given that LZ4 is used everywhere, I'm interested to see what impact this has in real-world usage.
AWS Discontinues Git-Hosting Service CodeCommit
Though not widely used, AWS CodeCommit had close integrations with other AWS services, which could cause user frustration with the migration process.

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Another service bites the dust. AWS needs to be careful not become Google in terms of ending services. Google's graveyard has been well tracked for years.
🔬 Top Science Stories
Dark oxygen made by deep sea ‘batteries’
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.

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Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co.
You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

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Honestly, I'd like my deleted code to be deleted. But I can understand why this is 'by design'. Further work by Truffle Security is here.
🤖 Top AI Stories
Tenstorrent Wormhole Dev Kits and Workstations Power High-End AI Development
Tenstorrent’s open and scalable approach to AI acceleration is the foundation of new devkits and developer workstations.

From RAG to ReST: A Survey of Advanced Techniques in Large Language Model Development
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in various applications. However, these models face significant challenges, including temporal limitations of their knowledge base, difficulties with complex mathematical computations, and a tendency to produce inaccurate information or ‘hallucinations.’ These limitations have spurred researchers to explore innovative solutions that can enhance LLM performance without the need for extensive retraining. The integration of LLMs with external data sources and applications has emerged as a promising approach to address these challenges, aiming to improve accuracy, relevance, and computational capabilities while maintaining the models’ core strengths in language understanding and

77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.

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How are you using AI in your day-to-day activities? With the increased push around productivity from the use of AI in day to day activities, has anyone else found productivity actually dropping? I'm using AI everyday to help with heavy lifting on some activities, and have found it really helpful. But I've also realised you need to be careful and not just take the output as the end product.
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This one is quiet exciting! Building agents via code can be laborious, and I'm really loving how they laid out the UX for this. Looking forward to trying it.